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Originally Posted by happygeek
I would be grateful to any of you for suggestions in helping me make my SP experience more enjoyable.
I realize that I am in the minority, and that this game really is all about MP,
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I was part of beta testing while Dom3 was still being developed. Dom1 was almost entirely MP but Dom3 put about equal effort into SP and MP. And you really are only a minority on the forums. Most SPers are hit-n-run guests who look for answers then leave so SP questions are very welcome.
As for game settings the only one I like to bring up is that new players often turn the strength of independents down when they feel the AI is too strong. Actually it should be turned up. That slows the AI and makes the game longer.
The game itself took kindof an easy route with AI. The AIs are pretty much totally random. Intelligently built AIs get predictable. Totally random AIs can be a surprise, or pretty stupid. On the other hand, the game does allow MODding and MAPing and Command Line switches to empower the player to do something about it if they wish. Adding designed AIs for nations that are in the game is done by map commands. Here is a quicky-ref list just to give an idea of what can be done.
http://www.dom3minions.com/docs/map_qref.txt
There is a program called SemiRand created by Ballbarian which will do that for you. Add random created things that other players have done to the map in order to give you surprises.
You can also try out some of my generated games for SemiRand or for my program (total chaos). They allow solo play.
http://www.dom3minions.com/HostedGames.htm
I love solo play and have a number of maps for it. One that is chaoticized fresh every day, some really huge ones for people who prefer lots of exploration, ones with many more straategic choke points which tend to be better for solo play than for mp play, and some such as the tower map which gives a unique game (it forces the players to be stacked, so basically for most of the game you are only fighting at the most two nations at a time)
http://www.dom3minions.com/maps.htm
Gandalf Parker